The
Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival strives to contribute to the breadth
of Dubuque classical music offerings through innovative interpretations
of a broad range of repertoire, ranging from well known works to lesser
known early music on period instruments to cutting edge new chamber
music.

Sunday evening, October 14, 2018 at 7:00 PMSILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISSBaroque Lute • Oleg TimofeyevBaroque Flute • Jeffrey
Cohan
The newly reconstructed sonatas of Silvius Leopold Weiss:Silvius
Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), the most prolific and highly esteemed
lutenist of the baroque who is reported to have rivaled Johann
Sebastian Bach in improvisational skill and worked for more than three
decades at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden alongside
French flute virtuoso Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1689-1768), wrote much
music for obbligato, or fully written out, baroque lute and the one-keyed flute of his time. The flute
part has unfortunately been lost but a new reconstruction by Jeffrey Cohan and Oleg Timofeyev is to be
premiered in this performance.

Sunday evening, October 21, 2018 at 7:00 PMGUITAR, FLUTE & VIOLAGuitar (made in 1815) • Oleg TimofeyevViola • Christine Rutledge8-keyed Flute (made in 1820 in London) • Jeffrey
CohanThe guitar-flute-viola trio in Beethoven's day:These
early 19th-century trios for an unusual combination of instruments
demonstrate the emerging romanticism of the early 19th centuryand the subsequent blossoming of chamber music with guitar by virtuosos on their evolvinginstruments. This golden age for the guitar-flute-viola trio was ushered into being in the early 1800'sas the industrial revolution and a musically hungry new middle class brought forthexpressive trends less affected by stylistic constraints of the past and significant changesin the tonal capabilities of musical instruments, prompting a dynamic new virtuoso interaction between instruments in chamber music.Antique early 19th-century instruments!Jeffrey Cohan will play an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820of cocuswood or Jamaican ebony with silver ornamental rings and keys, made in Londonin 1820 by George Rudall with the help of George Willis. In 1821 Rudall joined with Roseto make Rudall & Rose flutes, which have found their way into the hands of some of today's most well-known flutists playing traditional Irish music.